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Publication

1999 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

58,750 words, Guess

Page Count

235 pages

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  • LibraryThing2711815
  • Goodreads6588124

Classifications

  • LCCHC340.12.Z7 U7232 1999

Description

"In both the East and the West, political histories of the Soviet Union have portrayed a powerful Kremlin leadership whose will was passively implemented by regional Party officials and institutions. Drawing on his research in recently opened archives in Moscow and the Urals - a vast territory that since the eighteenth century has been a vital center of the Russian mining and metallurgy industries - James R. Harris overturns this view. He argues here that the regions have for centuries had strong identities and interests and that they cumulatively exerted a significant influence on Soviet policy-making and on the evolution of the Soviet system."--BOOK JACKET.

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